Introduction

Welcome on SOTA documentation base.
What is SOTA ?
SOTA (State-Of-The-Art) is a unified framework designed to extend LabVIEW with advanced AI and high-performance computing capabilities.
It provides a graph-oriented execution environment that connects LabVIEW with ONNX Runtime and multiple hardware accelerators such as CUDA, TensorRT, DirectML, OpenVINO and OneDNN.
SOTA enables engineers and researchers to:
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Design and deploy neural networks and complex data-processing graphs directly in LabVIEW.
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Execute models efficiently across CPUs, GPUs, NPUs, FPGAs or cloud environments, with automatic optimization for each target.
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Integrate AI seamlessly into existing LabVIEW applications, bridging traditional test-and-measurement workflows with modern machine learning and simulation tasks.
By relying on ONNX as an open standard and ONNX Runtime as its execution core, SOTA ensures full interoperability between LabVIEW and the entire AI ecosystem — from model training to deployment on embedded or industrial systems.
In short, SOTA turns LabVIEW into a high-performance, AI-ready platform, capable of orchestrating heterogeneous computing resources through a single, intuitive visual interface.
General

This section aims to help you in your first steps with the deep learning toolkit. Here you will be guided to install and configure the tool properly.
A small tutorial on how to use the toolkit with simple examples is also proposed as well as a guide to help you find and use examples.
Iconography

This section allows you to understand the meaning of the design and colors used by the toolkit.
API
This section is the “detailed” section for using the toolkit functions.
This section is separated into two sub-sections.
Models

In this sub-section you will find all the functions that allow to execute and configure the parameters of a model.
Layers

In this sub-section you will find all the functions to build a graph.
Activations

In this sub-section you will find all the functions related to the activations.
Cells
Documentation illustration (illustration unavailable in the archive).
In this sub-section you will find all the functions related to the cells.
Metrics

In this sub-section you will find all the functions related to the metrics.
